Publications by authors named "Ayad Shafiq"

Background/objectives: Screening for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a core healthcare intervention in premature babies to avoid preventable sight loss. A variety of screening criteria are in place globally for this purpose. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health recently updated the United Kingdom ROP screening guidelines (March 2022).

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Background: Bevacizumab is increasingly used in children with pediatric low-grade glioma (PLGG) despite limited evidence. A nationwide UK service evaluation was conducted to provide larger cohort "real life" safety and efficacy data including functional visual outcomes.

Methods: Children receiving bevacizumab-based treatments (BBT) for PLGG (2009-2020) from 11 centers were included.

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Morning glory disc anomaly is associated with serous retinal detachments, high refractive errors, amblyopia, and strabismus. There have been limited reports of an association between morning glory disc and peripheral retinal non-perfusion. The authors report a case of unilateral morning glory disc anomaly associated with markedly asymmetric retinopathy of prematurity.

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An extremely premature baby boy born at 23 weeks' gestational age was treated with unilateral low dose of 0.16 mg/0.025 mL intravitreal bevacizumab in the left eye for aggressive retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

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Background: Intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) has emerged as an effective treatment modality for the management of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) where the disease is severe and posterior. Despite evidence of systemic vascular endothelial growth factor suppression and concerns about how this might affect the developing neonate, the optimal dose is unknown to date. We report our experience of using ultra-low-dose (0.

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Intravitreal bevacizumab is an increasingly common treatment choice for posterior retinopathy of prematurity. Despite concern about its systemic effects, there have been few studies on the lowest effective dose. The authors describe a case that was successfully treated with 0.

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Background: Infantile esotropia (IE) is the inward deviation of the eye. Various aspects of the clinical management of IE are unclear; mainly, the most effective type of intervention and the age at intervention.

Objectives: The objective of this review was to assess the effectiveness of various surgical and non-surgical interventions for IE and to determine the significance of age at treatment with respect to outcome.

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Mitochondrial disorders are associated with well recognized ocular manifestations. Pearson syndrome is an often fatal, multisystem, mitochondrial disorder that causes variable bone marrow, hepatic, renal and pancreatic exocrine dysfunction. Phenotypic progression of ocular disease in a 12-year-old male with Pearson syndrome is described.

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The term phacomatosis pigmentovascularis (PPV) refers to the occurrence of vascular nevi with melanocytic or epidermal nevi. We report on monozygotic twins (MZTs) discordant for phacomatosis cesioflammea (PPV type II) providing evidence for the mechanism of twin spotting in the development of PPV. The affected twin had a nevus flammeus on the right arm and the right maxilla, and a pigmented area on the trunk in keeping with a persistent, aberrant Mongolian spot.

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Purpose: To compare postmortem orbital findings in pediatric accidental head injury to Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS).

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Institutional.

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Purpose: The molecular characterization of a UK family with an autosomal dominant congenital cataract associated with microcornea is reported.

Methods: Family history and clinical data were recorded. This phenotype was linked to a 7.

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Objective: To asses the surgical outcome of subfoveal choroidal neovascular membranes in children.

Methods: Two eyes with Best disease and one with idiopathic subfoveal choroidal neovascular membrane underwent vitrectomy and extraction of the subfoveal neovascular membrane.

Results: All the three eyes had significant improvement in their visual acuity and there was no recurrence of choroidal neovascular membrane.

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